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  Damn Tuscans The title of this essay is original, no certainly, it is an Italian expression that has object the Tuscans, now I not heard it, last time I were old 10 years, and remembered this judgment when I have thought a question, this is localism of Giorgio Vasari(1511-1574) biographer of artists and painter himself; this think is because am reading a book about Giotto, and the steps of Vasari about graphical art, that is characteristic of Tuscan school, it is enough remember Michael Angel and Sistine Chapel(Fig.1), and we can very easily the style of Michelangelo and his culture of drawing, the bodies are limited from lines and it show their presence on figure that are colored but without heavy, as the Venice school where the color is chiefly element to painter; the hard color we can see to Titian Vecellio(1490-1576)(Fig.3) or his master Giorgione(1477-1510), and we can note the heavy color that is peculiarity of Venetian school, on contrary Tuscan school and Vasari above a...

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